Plant of the Week
Easterners, have the Red Columbine flowered?
Jennifer Anderson, USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database
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- Photo sharing of plant observations
- Scientist blog by Dr. Kay and Dr. Paul
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May 6, 2009
The Chicago Botanic Garden is in full bloom. In the last ten days I saw the first flowers open for several trees and shrubs, including lilacs (Syringa vulgaris), juneberry (Amelanchier canadensis), and redbud (Cercis canadensis). The magnolias (Magnolia spp.) are waning and the crabapples (Malus spp.) are just starting to open their colorful blossoms. The spring ephemerals such as bluebells (Mertensia virginica), white trillium (Trillium grandiflorum), and dogtooth violets (Erythronium americanum), rue anemone (Thalictrum thalictroides) and celandine poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum) are in full bloom in the region’s woodlands. Most of these observations were within a few days of last year’s observations of these phenophases. >>Read more...
